Redownloaded itunes songs still have DRM!?

[evilphant0m]

I was hoping that icloud meant the end of the bs itunes plus system of having to pay to own your songs but apparently not. As a test I just tried deleting a DRM protected album I bought a while back, and then re-downloading it, and the re-downloaded files still have the damn DRM. I'm tired to being asked to pay hundreds of dollars to own the music I already paid for... at this point I'm thinking the best option might be to just delete all of my DRM songs and download replacements illegally(bit ironic considering the original purpose of DRM was to prevent pirating music).